Mainstream Media Becomes Pure Propaganda, Is Bias, Dishonest

The Bulletin ^ | February 2, 2009 | Herb Denenberg

[jazusamo]

The Bulletin is a small but growing Conservative newspaper in Philadelphia and has other good articles, try checking it out at link.

[Obadiah]

Morning, Rip Van Winkle. Good column.

[penelopesire]

Good article!

[geologist]

One of the reasons for the success of Rush Limbaugh is because ... ‘the news is no longer the news’ ...However this is not new. We have had the press lie to us on going ...regarding the events of WW11 and the FDR Presidency up to and including today. They lied about Vietnam. Korea, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan,Bush,#1, Clinton, GWB, and now Obama. Nothing new. The game stays the same ... only the names change.

The socialist, liberal, progressive, communist, Marxist, have made constant inroads against our Constitution; and our way of life. Each generations gets the same lies over and over.

Be a student of history. It is and has been the liberals against the conservatives ever since the beginning... whatever they are called.

They are winning via the welfare/ immigration war now.

How it has worked is when we really see (not what they say; but what they do) we conservatives win back the lost ground mostly.

Still they have gained the edge during the last 40 years.

[BobbyT]

Stop trying to use “bias” as an adjective. All of you.
I see it just about every day and I can’t take anything following it seriously.

Biased is the adjective. The media is biased.
Bias is the noun. The media shows bias.

It’s no different from the shrieking community organizers saying things like “he’s prejudice!” or “I ain’t suppose to”.

[jazusamo]

They are winning via the welfare/ immigration war now.

Well said...Hope we can win back ground before it's too late.

[jazusamo]

Agreed, I noticed it also.

[Califreak]

[Cicero]

Ah, you mean the headline. Very strange. The article is well written and literate, but the headline is out to lunch.

The only explanation I can come up with is that headlines are often written by headline writers, whose chief concern is to fit them into the column space, so it’s probably not Herb Denenberg’s fault.

The article is good.

[Flycatcher]

Stop trying to use “bias” as an adjective. All of you.

Yes, it's impacting me.

[Billthedrill]

It’s worse because it is an institutional bias. The problem, in a word, is groupthink.

There are several reasons for this, IMHO. First, newsrooms are filled much more with college graduates than used to be the case, and their sources of education tend to be overwhelmingly liberal. Second, it is a central tenet of liberal dogma that liberals are smarter than conservatives, which colors any attempt at political diversity in hiring and promotion (as it does on campus as well). And third, there is the seduction of power. Young journalists get into the business for the admirable if somewhat callow reasons of "making a difference" and "changing the world." But the environment is more cloistered than it used to be and that tends to shield those young people from learning better in the way they might in, say, the construction industry or the military. A reporter committed to becoming an agent of change is a reporter impossibly compromised. Surrounded by similarly motivated colleagues there is no corrective, and the tendency toward groupthink becomes simply a matter of career survival.

Goldberg has said it elsewhere and I think he's correct - they don't even know they're doing it. In fact, they bristle at the mere suggestion. Fish don't notice the water.

[roses of sharon]

This is like saying the DNC shows bias, lol.

The MSM are WORKING for the UnAmerican Democrat Party...and lying about it to their viewers and readers.

We should sue their arse.

[SMARTY]

“What’s been lost is journalistic integrity; and too many people in the mainstream media, to their eternal discredit, don’t even realize its lost it”

The author is accurate in this statement, but he does not observe that most of the current ‘generation’ of journalists are/have been merely aping the precedent set by journalists of long standing ... their senior colleagues. His so called ‘integrity’ of journalism was a pathetic relic and diminished commodity even when the current crop of ‘journalists’ began playing ‘news room’ for a living.

[trisham]

Thank you. It's becoming routine to see this kind of thing, unfortunately.

[Bahbah]

I have The Bulletin bookmarked.

[jazusamo]

Couldn’t agree more, you nailed it.

My granddaughter wants to major in journalism, she’s a very good writer already. We’ve had many discussions about this very thing and fortunately her parents are good conservatives, I’d like to believe she’ll buck the odds.

[Skooz]

bfl

[jazusamo]

It really does come down to the MSM working for the RATS.

[jazusamo]

Very good pics on your homepage. :)

[DustyMoment]

Mainstream Media Becomes Pure Propaganda, Is Bias, Dishonest

And this is a surprise to whom???